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INPAS Adoption and Engagement Director

Samantha is a passionate Chartered Accountant (ACA) and CPA(U) from the UK, and has lived in Uganda since 2001. She has 25+ years post qualification experience in the non-profit sector, as auditor, consultant, trainer, advisor, CFO and Board member. From 2019 to 2025 she was Project Director of IFR4NPO (International Financial Reporting for Non Profit Organisations) with Humentum – the initiative that the developed the first edition of the International Non-Profit Accounting Standard (INPAS).

Previous roles include auditing with Mazars and Carr Stanyer Sims; training delivery, training design and Regional Director East Africa with Humentum (formerly Mango); financial consultancy with Aclaim Africa Ltd for a variety of NPO clients across Africa, Grant Management Advisor for VSO Uganda, CFO for Child’s i Foundation, and Board Treasurer of local NGOs.

Samantha co-leads the Uganda INGO Finance Network and is the Uganda Contact Member for the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales.

She has a degree in Natural Sciences (Zoology) from Cambridge University, where she was also Organ Scholar for Christ’s College. She is a member of Kampala Singers and Kamapala Amateur Dramatics Society, and an avid composter.